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TODHUNTER, ISAAC (1820-1884)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 1044 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO
TODHUNTER, ISAAC (1820-1884) , English mathematician, son of George Todhunter, a Nonconformist minister, was born at Rye on the 23rd of November 1820. He was educated at Hastings, at which town his mother had opened a school after the death of his father in 1826. He became an assistant master at a school at Peckham, attending at the same time evening classes at the University College, London. In 1842 he obtained a mathematical scholarship and graduated as B.A. at London University, and was awarded the gold medal on the M.A. examination. About this time he became mathematical master at a school at
Wimbledon
 . In 1844 he entered St John's College,
Cambridge
 , where he was senior wrangler in 1848, and gained the first
Smith
 's prize and the
Burney
  prize; and in 1849 he was elected to a fellowship, and began his life of college lecturer and private tutor. In 1862 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1865 a member of the Mathematical Society of London. In 1871 he gained the Adams prize and was elected to the council of the Royal Society. He was elected honorary fellow of St John's in 1874, having resigned his fellowship on his
marriage
  in 1864. In 188o his eyesight began to fail, and shortly afterwards he was attacked with paralysis. He died at
Cambridge
  on the 1st of March 1884.


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